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Nobody has made me install a ramp to my front door, because I don't operate a business open to the public out of my home. So I'm not too concerned. (That said
by liability 7y ago
Nobody has made me install a ramp to my front door, because I don't operate a business open to the public out of my home. So I'm not too concerned.
(That said, I would sooner make my blog accessible to the vision impaired than make my home wheelchair friendly. Web accessibility is trivial unless you go out of your way to do fancy shit with style sheets and JavaScript, or unless you do dumb shit like put important text in images with no alt-text (just... why??))
- worldofmatthew 7y agoThe biggest issue are screen readers which often work awfully with modern web standards. On top of most web designers being unable to test with them just to high cost.
- floren 7y agoI don't know that the problem lies with modern web standards so much as modern web practices. I don't think there's anything in the HTML5 standard that makes screen readers shit the bed, but pervasive Javascript certainly can.
- worldofmatthew 7y agoMany accessibility tools shit the bed on CSS.
- Misdicorl 7y agoBut the line between 'the business' and personal is often blurry. Must Elon Musk's tweets satisfy these requirements? What about a senior software engineer's blog which goes into some detail on a Google cloud outage?
- Misdicorl 7y agoTo really drive the point home- what if both the engineer and Google earn money from the blog because it runs AdWords?
- liability 7y agoThe de-adification of non-commercial websites would be a great outcome!
- liability 7y agoTelsa and Elon both explicitly told the SEC that Elon's twitter account may used for official company messaging, making that an unambiguous example.
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